*Screening at the Berkshire Conference on Women’s and Gender History in New York in June

“The remarkable story of this community garden and the women who brought it to life will inspire countless others.” Prof. Nancy Turner

Informal reviews from advance screenings around BC: ‘I feel reverence’ ‘Passionate’ ‘This is a... film for Africa – governments need to see this film’ ‘Beautiful and inspiring’ …

A film telling the inspiring story of

South African women seeking food justice

This is a film about resilience – three generations of older women in a village in South Africa who came together in the dying days of apartheid to create a community garden. In the midst of severe drought and political turmoil, older women with limited access to land and little political voice joined together, beyond the household, beyond their kin, to make something new. They named their garden
Hleketani – “thinking” in the local xiTsonga language – a place where women gather to think about how to effect change. The garden provides affordable vegetables to local people, nourishes those living with HIV/AIDS, helps offset some effects of climate change, and offers land, community, and opportunity for women. The Thinking Garden tells the remarkable story of what can happen when older women take matters into their own hands, and shows how local action in food production can give even the most vulnerable people a measure of control over their food and their futures. 35 min. In xiTsonga with English subtitles.

The Faculty Association's
Human Rights Committee at Camosun College is hosting a public presentation
by Bev Sellars on March 16th at 7pm (in the Wilna Thomas building room 234).

Bev Sellars is a former councillor and
chief of the Xat’sull (Soda Creek) First Nation in Williams Lake. She has been
an advisor for the BC Treaty Commission and a representative on the Cariboo
Chilcotin Justice Inquiry. She is the award-winning author of They Called Me Number One, a memoir of
her childhood experience in the Indian residential school system, and Price Paid: The Fight for First Nations
Survival, a history of Indigenous rights in Canada. Sellars is Chair of the
First Nations Women Advocating Responsible Mining and has degrees in history
(UVic) and law (UBC).

John Pilger’s new film is his most
urgent work to date and reveals what the news does not. The United States and
China may well be on the road to war - and with a noose of US bases now
encircling the world’s newest superpower, nuclear war is not only imaginable
but a nightmarish prospect. 'The Coming War on China' is both a warning and an
inspiring story of people’s resistance to war and the occupation of their
countries. Filmed over two years across four potential flashpoints, 'The Coming
War' returns Pilger to Asia, where his most renowned work has been set; like
his landmark Cambodia Year Zero, this film breaks a silence. With eyewitness
interviews and rare archive footage, it tells the secret history of an entire
nation declared ‘experimental’ in the nuclear age.

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April 1:

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April
Fool's day is RAVEN's 8th birthday and there is so much to celebrate with you. RAVEN's impact
is growing in leaps and bounds this year, with three new campaigns launched:
Pull Together against Kinder Morgan, Protect the Peel, and Wild for Salmon:
Protect the Skeena from Petronas LNG. Please join us for a celebratory and
funky dance party!

Auntie
Kate & the Uncles of Funk are lined up to give us a rockin' fun night
of blues and funk on Saturday, April 1st from 7 - 11PM at the Britannia
Legion, 780 Summit Ave in central Victoria.

You
can purchase your $20 advance ticket here: http://tinyurl.com/ravenfunkor
at the door for $25. Your ticket gets you all the funk you can groove to AND
birthday cake!

Please
bring some extra cash so you can pitch in for the50/50 Drawand buy some delicious legion food
that the

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